@Steve

It seems you are saying you can't imagine any scenarios where someone
would want to lock their default kernel. I don't think its that
difficult, please try.

Here is just one. You work for a company where "official" policy
dictates you may only use Windows workstations; any unauthorised
software installation is forbidden.

Due to pressing business requirements, your boss gives you the go-ahead
to install Ubuntu on a workstation as long as nobody finds out.

The last thing you need is for a technician to accidentally discover you
have a Linux workstation on there - perhaps they were delivering some
hardware update.

Having grub bork an "unauthorised" error is a good way to achieve that,
there is plausible deniability.

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Cannot set lock option in menu.lst without being overriden by update-grub
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